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Updated: 10:35 PM EST Nov 10, 2016

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WEBVTT
SHOULD FIND
HIM NOT GUILTY ON BOTH CHARGES.
>> DURING HIGH
SCHOOL WE WOULD
TALK, WE WOULD H OUT IN
EXPLORER'S.
EMILY: TALKING WITH ONE OF RAY
TENSING'S HIGH HOOL FRIENDS,
JUSTIN DID NOT WANT TO SHARE HIS
LAST NAME BUT SAYS HE GOT TO
KNOW TENSING WHILE TY WERE IN
THE SHERIFF'S EXPLORER'S
PROGRAM, AN ELY INTRO TO
POLICE EDUCATION AND FIELD
TRAINING.
>> HE'S ALWAYS BEEN CALM, COOL,
COLLECTED AND THAT'S THE WAY
HE'S ALWAYS BEEN.
I MEAN, I JUST COULDN'T SEE IT,
I'M MAD, I'M GOING TO SHOOT YOU,
THAT'S NOT THE RAY TENSING I
KNEW
EMIL WATCHING THE BODY CAMERA
VIDEO HIMSELF, JUSTIN SAYS
TENSING MADE A MISTAKE BY
REACHING INTO THE CAT
BELIEVES HE WAS JUSTIFIED IN THE
SHOOTING.
>> THE DEO DOES SHOW THE CAR
MOVING BEFORE RAY SHOT HIM.
I THINK THAT'S BIG BECAUSE THAT
GOES TO SHOW RAY WAS NOT LYING
AND IS NOT LYING, THE CAR WAS
MOVING.
EMILY: UNSURE WHAT THE JURY WILL
DECIDE, JUSTIN SAYS TENNG'
ATTORNEY STEW MATHEWS WAS
SUCCESSFUL PRESENTING REASONAB
DOUBT TO THE JURS.
HE ALSO SAYS A MURDER
CONVICTION, SHOULD NOT BE AN
OPTION.
>> JUST THINKING ABOUT THAT
MAKES MY HEART POUND AND CHILLS
BECAUSE THAT IS, I D'T EVEN
KNOW HOW TO DESCBE THAT.
THAT WOULD BE, I MEAN, TERRIBLE,
HORRIBLE
I DON'T KNOW HOW I WOULD FEEL.
EMIL JUSTIN SAYS HE SAW RAY
TENSING ABOUT A MONTH AGO AND
THEY BRIEFLY TALKED ABOUT THE
TRIAL.
HE SAYS TENSING SEEMED NERVOUS
AND WORRIE
NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, HE FULLY
SUPPORTS RAY TENSING.
REPORTING LIVE, EMILY WOOD, WLWT

Tensing's former classmate defends his friend during final days in court